What Does a Vegetative State Refer To

question 46

Multiple Choice

What does a vegetative state refer to?

• A)depression of the RAS and inability to initiate action
• B)loss of awareness and intellectual function but continued brainstem function
• C)continuing intellectual function but inability to communicate or move
• D)disorientation and confusion with decreased responsiveness

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Definitions:

Failure to Conserve

A difficulty or inability to recognize that certain properties of objects or substances remain unchanged despite changes in their form or arrangement, typically seen in children before they reach the concrete operational stage of cognitive development.

Mental Operation

Cognitive processes that allow an individual to reason, perform abstract thinking, and solve problems.

Identity

The qualities, beliefs, personality, looks, and/or expressions that make a person or group.

Tower of Hanoi

A mathematical game or puzzle consisting of three pegs and a number of disks of different sizes which can slide onto any peg, with the objective being to move the entire stack to another peg, following certain rules.